Nigeria, Oct. 31 -- Ordinarily I would have ignored Mohammed Bello Doka's piece with the title above, if Engineer Sadiq Dwafu had not tagged me with it. I suspect he wanted my opinion, and I have one, though not the one the crowd is clapping for.

We live in a season where emotionally charged intervention passes for courage. The closer we get to 2027, the more boldness is measured by how many strong words you can string against a target. Doka's essay fits that mood perfectly, and that is why it travelled fast. Yet mood is not method.

Let me start from his title, because a title is a thesis. To say Tinubu chooses content creation over competence assumes competence is a button a president can choose to press. This is a category error. Com...